Like the 1987 film, and the song, the plot concerns the immigration to the United States. However, unlike the plot concerning a successful and now middle aged Mexican immigrant of the earlier film, the plot of this film concerns younger undocumented immigrants.
Samuel, Sara and Juan, three teenagers from Guatemala decide to leave poverty by going to the United States. After crossing the Mexican border by boat, they find another immigrant, a tzotzil native called Chauk who does not know Spanish but is able to befriend Sara. When they arrive to a town in Chiapas, they are caught by Mexican Immigration Police agents, who steal Juan's and Chauk's shoes and deport them back to Guatemala.
Juan is able to find a way to come back to Mexico, but at this point Samuel decides to stay back home. Juan dislikes the idea of going with Chauk, but Sara forces him to go on with him and the three continue the road to the north. While riding on a train to the United States, the train is stopped by the Mexican Army who began to trap the immigrants; however, the trio manages to hide themselves amongst a group of sugar-cane collectors who give them refuge and work. During a party in the plantation, Juan and Sara get drunk and began to kiss in front of Chauk, leaving him alone.
Chauk is angry at Sara, but decides to remain with them and continue the ride to the north. During the trip, they are detained by drug traffickers, who steal all the money from the passengers and kidnap the female travelers. Sara is soon recognized as a girl and taken by the traffickers; when Juan and Chauk resist, Juan is seriously injured and Chauk is knocked unconscious.
Chauk wakes up and tends to Juan's injuries. When Juan recovers, both recognize that they can do nothing for Sara and decide to continue their ride to the north. During the train ride, they meet a boy from Guatemala that offers them jobs, but in reality it is just a trick and the boy delivers them into the hands of a group of kidnappers. When the leader learns that Juan is from his country, Juan is released. Juan later returns and offers the leader the money he earned at the sugar cane plantation to free Chauk.
Juan and Chauk arrive in Mexicali, where they get help from a group of immigrant traffickers to cross the border between Mexico and United States. The traffickers take the boys across the border, but leave the two on their own in the desert, where Chauk is killed by an immigrant hunter. Juan soon arrives to a city where he gets a job in a meat factory. The movie ends with Juan looking into a snowstorm, recognizing that Chauk wanted to cross the border because he wanted to see the snow.
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